Enlightenment of Nobel Prize In the 20th century, Cambridge University and Harvard University won 56 and 36 Nobel Prizes respectively, ranking first in the world. By analyzing the successful experiences of these two universities, we can find that the scientific spirit has played a key role in them. The academic origin of Cambridge University is the liberal educational thought of ancient Greece, which emphasizes rational cultivation and personality shaping. Its core content emphasizes that acquiring knowledge and developing wisdom is the only and highest purpose of education, while opposing education has other utilitarian purposes to prepare for a certain career. The concrete manifestations are as follows: (1) in teaching objectives, it is emphasized that developing intelligence is more important than acquiring knowledge; In terms of curriculum and specialty setting, it emphasizes the internal meaning of educational purpose, pursues the value of knowledge itself, opposes the external utilitarian purpose of education, and attaches importance to academic majors and courses; In terms of teaching content, the standard for determining the content is to cultivate knowledgeable people rather than professionals in a certain field; For the purpose of education, we emphasize the principle of haircut, encourage students to think independently and question boldly, and attach importance to the cultivation of critical and creative thinking ability. Under the guidance of this school-running concept, Cambridge University has formed a tradition of attaching importance to academic bachelor and freedom, the intrinsic value of knowledge and the development of individual talents and potentials. The thought of free education and the academic tradition of Cambridge influenced the students of all ages in Cambridge, and made them have a profound academic foundation and outstanding ability, especially the ability to question and innovate. As the "Cambridge College" in the United States, Harvard University not only retains the tradition of Cambridge's liberal educational thought, but also makes its education more inclusive because of the free, relaxed and pragmatic environment in the United States. Successive presidents of Harvard University insist on the idea of combining haircut with utility, which has a great influence on the development of Harvard University. They admit that the responsibility of universities is to serve and cultivate their own society, but at the same time they insist that the external environment should not force universities to participate in political struggles at the expense of their independence, or ask them to do something detrimental to academic openness and freedom, because openness and freedom are the essential characteristics of learning and research. 199 1 Lu, the incoming president of Harvard University, pointed out: "Of course, university research should make an important contribution to economic development, and university education should also help students engage in useful and satisfactory jobs. However, for the best education, there are more important aspects that the dollar or RMB can't favor. The best education should not only help us to be more creative in the professional field, but also make us more thoughtful, have more ideals and opinions to pursue and become more perfect and successful people ... Universities should pay more attention to basic research. Moreover, it is not based on a realistic attitude, but on a deep understanding of nature and humanity. " It can be seen that if university workers want to achieve great achievements and produce outstanding academic masters, they must have a spirit of seeking knowledge beyond things, only pursuing peace and science, not asking about the actual utilitarian atmosphere and character, and not asking about the knowledge of a wide range of disciplines. Cambridge University and Harvard University have become the cradles of Nobel Prize because they have never been influenced by external environment, and they have never chosen knowledge with utilitarian mentality. They have always maintained their own unique tradition of general education, making different disciplines communicate, combine and penetrate each other according to their inherent logical development, and gradually formed a broad, inclusive, broad-minded and comprehensive innovative spirit in their schools. The Nobel Prize does not favor utilitarians, and only people with scientific spirit may win this honor. Looking at the list of winners of the Nobel Prize for Science in 100 years, it is found that the Nobel Prize is usually not awarded to inventors of applied technologies or products, and more than 90% of the prizes are awarded to scientists who have made theoretical achievements of millions of people in the field of basic science. The general public has personal feelings about the scientific achievements of practical technology, but the discoveries and theories in the field of basic science can't attract people's attention because they are far away from the economy and daily life, but they are the foundation and source of technology and are very important for maintaining the continuous innovation of technology and the sustainable development of economy. The tradition of the Nobel Prize for Science favoring basic scientific achievements has undoubtedly played a very positive role in encouraging scientists to engage in basic scientific research and making the whole society pay attention to and support basic scientific research. An important reason why the United States won the Nobel Prize is that American scientists have the scientific spirit of innovation and challenging authority. They dare and are willing to challenge authority and always question old ideas. Scientists in China dare not doubt authority and books, so they lack innovative consciousness and ability. Scientific theory only accurately describes the objective world to a certain extent through a strict logical system. As a product of thought in a certain period, it is only a phased achievement in the long process of human understanding. It is natural to develop, doubt, criticize, correct and deny some principles, and even deny the whole theory. Innovation is to be unconventional, to do things that no one has done before, to dare to doubt, to be good at doubting, to study and to innovate. Most scientific research in China belongs to normal scientific research, and there are successful safety to follow. In normal scientific research, scientists are basically required to treat the paradigm on which it is based dogmatically, which can only produce normal scientific research results, while it is hopeless to produce world-class scientific and technological achievements or win the Nobel Prize. The creative activities of scientists are deeply influenced by scientific traditions and social background. What China should do now is not to pursue the Nobel Prize in the room, but to cultivate a good academic tradition and innovative consciousness and create a free academic atmosphere. In a word, the Nobel Prize is the embodiment of the outstanding achievements of mankind in exploring the unknown world, and the scientific spirit is embodied in every winner. If China wants to achieve a breakthrough in the Nobel Prize, morality must start with curbing utilitarian thoughts and casting scientific spirit.